i eae oe eas The Daily News The Leading Newspaper and the Largest Circulation in Northern B.C. Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Dat.y, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance, WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. on application. Contract rates EAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New York—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. LONDON, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. ago FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT DAILY EDITION. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6 Very clear indeed is the warning of the Davis float accident to all citizens who go pleasure seeking by sea. Here is distinctly a case of an accident which happened through that contempt for risk born of too much familiarity with a simple raft bridge afloat in deep water, reasonably safe if properly used, yet a perfect death trap if overloaded. Strong feeling certainly does exist in the city that this raft bridge used at the Davis wharf to transfer boat users from the shore to the floating boat house was a primitive and peril-fraught affair which should have been abolished long ago. Mr. Davis himself admits that if he had had any assurance from the G. T. P. that his tenure of his temporary location by the grade was at all sure for this season, he would have had a gangway constructed instead of the rope hauled raft. He is sorry he did not now, and profoundly thankful that the Labor Day accident was not a fatal one. In fairness to Mr. Davis, however, part of the blame must be attached to those who allowed so many people to crowd in the darkness on to a raft which as everybody in Prince Rupert must surely know, does not hold more than five or six people safely, and is designed for only four passengers. To have allowed twelve adults four of whom were women, and two mothers with infants in arms, to throng hap- hazard on to so frail a craft at nine o'clock at night was almost criminal recklessness. Beyond doubt the men of the picnic party did noble work in saving the women and infants, not to mention the male non- swimmers from death. Yet after all, it was up to those men to save the lives of the women who trusted themselves and their babies to their care. It was up to them ten thousand times the more to save those tender lives because they had allowed such dangerous over- crowding of the raft bridge. If the Davis float raft bridge were such a source of peril, then ought not the users of it to have been even more than usually careful? NOTES AND COMMENTS *QO—oo—OO! The cleverness of Me!’’ crowed Peter Pan when Wendy sewed his shadow on his heels again after he had vainly tried to do the job himself with soap. And somehow at that bit the audience from gallery to stalls always laughed. The Evening Empire is not nearly such a lovable spirit as Peter THE DAILY NEWS _ yet the Empire editorials last night do seem so like poor Peter's vain little ‘“OO—oo—OO” without one spark of the cleverness, that Prince Rupert’s goodnatured laugh from stalls to gallery, so to speak, came as a matter of course. In one editorial—oh, such an editorial!—in which it eccuses the Daily News of a ‘‘want of proper newspaper etiquette’ the Evening Empire prints the followirg choice verbiage about the News “That rascally deceptive warfare has been in vogue with : geance ever since through the instrumentality of a runt of a lawyer and a half-witted, impractical and illogical import from the Toronto Globe.” Oh, you etiquette! Shade of a defunct Billingsgate fish merchar t! ‘The Empire on Newspaper Etiquette’ sure is some useful hendbook all right! ven- Last night an Empire editorial accuses the Daily News of a ‘‘want of a spirit of fairplay”’ and “want of a sense of justice.”’ a wonderful ‘‘sense of justice” or ‘‘spirit of fairplay"’ then in the Empire's attack on the Davis float? The float was primitive to be sure. So are many appliances used today in Rupert. No one claims thet it was a safe or even a convenient affair. But it had been used with reasonable safety for three years by those who took reasonable care with it, and it was disgracefully overloaded when the Labor Day accident happened. Any but an Empire ‘‘sense of justice’ and of fair play’’ would demand that the blame in this case be equally divided. Is there such “spirit In the same issue with an editorial titled ‘‘The Knockers’’ which accuses the Daily News of ‘‘disloyalty to the city’’ the Evening Empire publishes the following: “Mayor Manson had presented to President Hays a quantity of roots and vegetables grown in Prince Rupert muskeg by Sheriff Shirley and these certainly were most handsome samples. The exhibit included potatoes, turnips, cauliflower, carrots, parsnips, other varieties and furnishes abundant proof of the productiveness of the vegetable mold—which comprises the term muskeg.”’ It requires but a very fleeting glance through the files of both papers for the past summer and spring to discover which paper did the most to boost Prince Rupert. As a matter of fact the very para- graph just quoted shows the result of the publication by the Daily News on August 10th of the story of Sheriff Shirley’s garden. The Daily News happens to know that the Evening Empire was invited also by the Sheriff to look at that garden but did not think it worth even a passing glance. It takes the Daily News after al! the stories that really do boost Prince Rupert. peas and to discover How the Daily News can ‘‘still retain that confidence, and influence which is essential to any newspeper wishing to wield an influence in the community” is past the understa: Evening Empire according to an editorial published in that prosy old oracle of glum prophecy last night. Daily News readers whose powers of perception are fortunately not limited like those of the poor befuddled but still solemrly verbose old Empire, difficulty at all in understanding why the Daily News attracts, en- courages, and retains confiderce, respect, and irfluence. The Daily News is bright and readable, brings a smile into the home with it no matter which way the battle or the bylaw business goes, go round with a sore head in a sling whining about bad times and an ungrateful community. The Daily N Rupert. And the Daily News is not nosing around with feverish and unholy anxiety to discover unsavory aspects of the public life and try to correct them with a sanctimonious air, but would far rather find respect, ding of the persistently have no and doesn't ews believes in, and boosts Prince {out and publish the pleasant stories of good things discovered that Pan—it is almost a pity to place them side by side for an instant—| boost our city in the view of the world outside. Closing Out The Entire Stock ITEMS OF SPORT Stringent rules to govern boxing contests in New York state have been adopted and promulgated by the newly organised State Boxing Cemmission, says the New York Herald. Physical fitness of the participants is to be insisted upon, and betting is to be discouraged, according to the program of the boxing commissioners. The sec- retary, Charles J. Harvey, declares that the commission will have an official representative present at all contests to see that the rules are lived up to. The commsiisson ruled against decisions being given in professional evénts. The rules, which will go into effect on August 29, as given out by Mr. Harvey, provide that every contestant must be examined new within 48 hours before the contest by a who been licensed to practise in the State of New York for not less than five years, ard this examiner certify in writing that the is physicelly sound and engage in the exhibition. over, the must contest when either of the shows marked superiority and no decisiors are to be rendered except in amateur tournaments held under the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union. The contestants must use gloves weighirg at five which must be handed to the men by the referee and which cannot be twisted or in any way manipu- physician has must boxer fit to More- the boxers referee stop least ources, lated. No person under eighteen allowed participate in any boxing contest. Betting on the outcome is strictly forbidden. The commission has that in at four) years of age is to be to ordered least ‘ : places in each licensed hall the} must be following notice promin- | lently displayed: “No betting allowed. Any per- som neking or offering to make bet is guilty of a misdeameanour | (section 1712, Penal Law) ard will be immediately ejected.” The sale of intoxicating liquor | the hall or auditorium contests are held is likewise in for- contest. where | bidden during the progress of the | THE CANADIAN. BANK OF me Ce SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L., CAPITAL, - $10,000,000 REST, - DRAFTS ON FOREIGN COU Every branch of The Canadian Bank of Commerce is equipped t the cities in the following countries without delay : Sx New Zealand Norway F Sour Egypt a & Fintand ‘ Philippine Islands S. Portugal! 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Early buyers are the wise buyers. Don’t wait until the very article you need has been sold and then you will say ‘“‘too late.’ This store has been noted for quality of Cut Glass. It has always carried this entire line along with the Sterling Silver, Silver Plate Ware, Cutlery, Clocks, Brass Goods, China, Ladies’ Hand Bags, Gilt Goods, Leather Goods and every other article wefstock is to be sold at a tremendous sacrifice. ‘ff ? . ‘ ft ” .° ° f B WATCH THIS SPACE TOMORROW FOR PRICES Third Avenue Prince Rupert a3